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Tomte 39 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple detectives solved mystery of ancient tree an...

The coolest thing about some apple cultivars is how their story is "someone found an apple tree at the side of a road with tasty apples", and people kept grafting them to this day. Boskoop, for example.

masklinn 39 days ago [–]

Getting to that is one of the reasons why people would kinda just grow apple seeds all over.

Plus they were not completely wasted, while not generally edible they’re fine for cider.

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